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.(No Mbdel.) P. ENGLAND.

BOTTLE.

Patented Feb. 1, 1887,

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ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PAREN ENGLAND, OF ASPEN, COLORADO.

PATENT OFFICE.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part-of Letters Patent No. 357,073, dated February1, 1887.

Application filed December 2, 1886. 'Serial No. 220,487. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PAREN ENGLAND, of Aspen, in the county of Pitkin andState of Oolorado, have invented a new and useful Improvement inBottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in bottles designed,mainly, to hold the cork in more securely against the expulsive force ofgases within without the employment of wires, caps, bails, or otherfastenings.

It consists in the peculiar construction of the neck of the bottle,whereby the expulsive force of the gases in the bottle is made to actupon the cork in a direction in which it has little or no tendency toforce the cork out.

I will now proceed to describe myinvention with reference to theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of thebottle-neck, and Fig. 2 a central longitudinal section of the same.

is formed a sharp inward bend, g, and a bulge,-

c, which bulge increases the transverse dimensions of the neck to agreater width than is filled by th cork.

0 is the cork,which is of the usual construction, but preferablyrendered tough and elastic by soaking or otherwise, so as to enable itto easily follow the curves of the throat in which it is seated. Thiscork, when inserted, passes throughout its entire length in contact withthe side of the bottle-neck on the right, while on the left said cork isin contact with the bottle-neck only from the point 9 to the mouth ofthe bottle, so that below the point 9 the side ofthe cork is exposed tothe pressure of gases within the bottle for nearly half its length. v

The merit of my invention is as follows: When the cork is inserted, thepressure of gases in the bottle acting upon the end a of 5 the corktends to force the cork out in the direction of line a b. The pressureon the exposed side of the cork tends to force it in the direction ofthe line 0 d, and these two directions of pressure give the resultantline of pressure 6 f,which, it will be seen, bears such arelation to thecurved side of thebentneck at f as to have little or no effect inforcing the .cork out on account of friction and the change in thedirection of pressure. With this form of bottie-neck and the ordinaryform of cork fermentable or malt liquors may be bottled and retainedwithout special forms of stoppers or stopper-fastenings. The bottle neckis also easily blown into this shape, and,as the mouth is in alignmentwith the neck, no difficulty is experienced in cleaning the bottles orin packing the same. i

That crooked portion of the bottle neck which receives the cork I callthe cork-seat, and when the cork is inserted it is deflected ordistorted from a true axial line in conforming I W. W. GooLEY, E. STUARTWHITEHEAD.

